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Established | July 23, 1918 |
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Location | Salvador, Brazil |
Coordinates | 12°59′37″S38°31′34″W / 12.993657°S 38.525977°W |
Type | Art museum |
The Bahia Museum of Art (Portuguese: Museu de Arte da Bahia) is a museum located in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This museum is one of the oldest museums in the State of Bahia. [1]
The museum was created to preserve the historical and ethnographic heritage of Salvador de Bahia, over time, the museum focused on expanding its catalog of collections in the arts. [2] The museum was founded in 1918. In 1982, the museum moved to the Vitória Palace. [1] The Vitória Palace was formerly used as the headquarters of the Secretary of Education. [3] In 2019, the museum was awarded the medal "Diploma and Medal for Museological Merit" by the Brazilian Regional Museology Council. [4] In 2020, the museum joined the Google Arts & Culture platform, in which an adapted version of Google Street View was added to the museum's interior. [5]
The museum has 5,000 works of art including religious sculptures, paintings, ceramics, photographs, documents and glass art. The museum contains pieces of decorative arts of Brazilian, Oriental and European origin. [1] The museum includes works of art by brazilian artists José Teófilo de Jesus, José Joaquim da Rocha, Alberto Valença, Mendonça Filho and Presciliano Silva. [6] The museum has a library with 12,000 books as well as plastic arts exhibits. [7] The museum also houses collections of the historian Góis Calmon. [8] Among the museum's collections are 19th century tiles and various antiques. [9] In 2017, the museum organized an exhibition of Judite Pimentel's artwork. [10] The museum also has a collection of statues made of marble. [11]